Carcass has reanimated after a 12-year dirt nap with its classic lineup intact, save drummer Dave Owen, because it’s just not physically possible for anyone, let alone someone recovering from a brain hemorrhage, to get back to the blast-beat grind after such a lengthy layoff. (Arch Enemy’s Daniel Erlandsson mans the kit for this tour.) Bill Steer, who possesses the most serpentine voice in hard rock’s snake pit, uses medical-textbook language to describe elaborate horror-film tortures, while he and Michael Amott play death-metal riffs as dauntingly technical as their lyrical terminology. Carcass has no new material to showcase, so die-hard fans should get a steady diet of “Crepitating Bowel Erosion,” “Fermenting Innards” and songs of that ilk, with trenchant commentary (“Keep on Rotting in the Free World”) interspersed among the grotesqueries. 1349, an alarmingly authentic Norwegian black-metal band with a faces-painted, fire-breathing stage show, provides the best live experience among Carcass’ categorically solid support acts.

Sun., Sept. 21, 6 p.m., 2008